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W. H. BAILEY. APPARATUS FOR THEDELIVERY 0F PREPAID. GOODS. No. 400,536.-Patented Apr; 2, 1889 v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIA M HENRY BAILEY, OF SALFORD, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR THE DELIVERY OF PREPAID GOODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No 400,536, dated April 2,1889.

Application filed December 31, 1888. Serial No. 295,073. (No model.)Patented in England July 12, 1888, No. 10,125.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,v WILLIAM HENRY BAILEY, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, and a resident of Salford, in the county of Lancaster.England, haveinvent-ed new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for theDelivery of Prepaid Goods, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent inGreat Britain, No. 10,125, dated July 12, 1888,) of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for the delivery ofprepaid articles, and particularly to machines of the Macbeth type, inwhich a revoluble cylindrical or other shaped magazine is employed tohold the various sorts of goods to be delivered; and the chief objectsof my improvements are to enable the indicator-dial to beset at anoblique angle to the machine instead of verrevoluble shaft or spindle,c.

tically or horizontally, as now customarygto illuminate the dial, and toenable the magaine readily to be brought to a stand in any one of thenecessary positions for the delivery mechanism to be unlocked oractuated by the coin or other key. I attain these objects by themechanism illustrated in the accompanying two sheets of drawings, inwhich Figure l is an elevation of a small machine of the type abovenamed. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation showing the upper pa'rtof themachine, part of the indicator-dial, and means for revolving themagazine. Fig. 3 is a plan showing the indicator-dial in full. Fig. 4illustrates an arrangement for illuminating the dial. Figs. 5 and 5 aresimilar views to Fig. 2, but illustrating alternative modes ofconnecting the ban dle-bar to the rotatory shaft of the magazine. Fig. 6represents my improvements applied to a larger machine of the same type.

Similar letters refer to similar part-s throu ghout the several views.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 62, and 3, a designates the casing of themachine; I), the upper part of the magazine, which is mounted on a Tothe upper part of the shaft 0 is fastened one end of a spring, (I, theother end of which is fastened to a short spindle, e, which is free tobe rotated in a bearing, f,on an inclined plate, f. The spring (I thusforms a swivel-coupling for connectin the vertical shaft 0 with theoblique spindle e. The plate f is secured by screws f to a casing, g,which carries the obliquelyset indicator-dial h, and is secured to theeasing a.

Pivoted to the spindle e is a handle-bar, e, on which is a handle, c anda projection, 0 The indicator-dial his numbered, as shown in Fig.3,andhas notches h which correspond to the numerals, each of thesenotches h bein gfor med to receive the projection 6 when the latter isbrought opposite to it, by moving the bar 6 round the indicator-dial.The magazine in thiscase is supposed to be divided into sixcompartments, (indicated by the numerals 1 to 6 on the dial 71,) andwhen the apparatus is unlocked by a coin and worked, goods are deliveredfrom that compartment corresponding to the numeral indicated by thenotch h, in which the projection e is at that moment lying, as is wellunderstood.

To obtain goods from another compartmentsay, for example, when theprojection is lying in the notch h, corresponding to the compartment 4,as shown in the drawings, and it is desired to obtain goods fromcompartment 6it is only necessary to raise the handlebar e sufficientlyto lift the projection a clear of its notch h and then to move thehandle-bar 6 round to the numeral 6 and drop the projection a into itsnotch h. The action of moving the handlebar 6 turns the spindle e, andby the spring cl turns the spindle c and so revolves the magazine 1),thereby bringing the compartment corresponding to the numeral 6 intoposition ready for delivering its contents in the usual way.

Fig. 4 illustrates the arrangement of a light, 70, which I employ forilluminating the dial h,which for this purpose would have to be made ofglass or other transparent material.

The light may be obtained by means of a gas-jet or lamp or electricity.Zis 'a chimney, which would not be required if an electric light wereused.

Figs. 5 and 5 illustrate similar arrangements to that shown on Fig. 2,the only difference being that in Fig. 5 the spindle e is shownconnected'to the shaft 0 by a simple form of universal joint orswivel-coupling m, instead of by a spring, d, as in Fig. 2, and in Fig.5 the two parts are shown connected by a pair 01' bevel-gears, m m

Fig. U is an outside View of a larger ma chine, showing theindicator-dial h set at an oblique angle to the machine, and its spindlee connectedby a spring, (Z, to the shaft 0 of the magazine, which inthis instance is above the dial instead of below it, as in the precedingviews.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, 1s

1. The combination, with the revoluble magazine-shaft of a coin-freedapparatus, of an indicator-dial set at an oblique angle to theapparatus, an inclined spindle projecting through the dial and carryinga handle, and a connection between. the inclined spindle and themagazine-shaft, substantially as described.

The combination, with the revoluble lnagazinwshaft of a coin-freedapparatus, of

an indicator-dial set at an oblique angle to the apparatus, an inclinedspindle projecting through the dial and carrying a handle, and aswiveled coupling connecting the spindle with the magazine-shaft,substantially as described.

3. The combination ,with the magazine-shaft 0, connected, substantiallyas herein shown and described, to the spindle e, of the handlebar a,having the projection c thereon, and the obliquely-set indicator-dial71, having; a series of notches, h, in its periphery, substantially asherein set forth.

In testimony that Iclaiin the foregoingas my inventionlhave signedmynamc in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY BAILEY.

\Vitnesses:

II. B. HARLOW, S. WALKEY GILLETT.

